GAIN Capital Launches
Currency-Trading Web Site

By

Jennifer Barrett Dow Jones Newswires

Updated May 31, 2000 5:02 p.m. ET

NEW YORK -- It's not the first time Mark Galant's friends have called him crazy.

A better adjective might be "lucky." At age 22, Mr. Galant was making what he called an "obscene amount of money" as a commodity trader when he quit his job to enter the MBA program at Harvard. When he returned to Wall Street in the mid-'80s, the gold market had turned south. Mr. Galant began trading currencies instead.